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Last week's hastily organized program was kicked-off with an informal assembly of Westview's 1,200 students and staff on a grassed area north of the school. With a deceptively "clear, blue sky" as the background, Ron Hammel, a publicity ctwordinator from the University of Toronto based "Pollution Probe" organization, spoke at one point of the inherent dangers in (of all things) colored tissue paper. Mr. Hummel pointed out that "while the tissue itself will dissolve, the chemicals that provide colour will not thus con- taminating the water." In addition he mentioned the "non-returnable bottle" dilemma now facing ecologists. "These con- tarpinators become (once they are discarded) relics of this era - bits of pollution that will dot the countryside for hundreds of years to come." He called for a "bottle battle" stores that continue to sell these polluters in favour of returnable bottles. He stressed also the need for personal conviction in what amounts to a "life and death" The week's activities also included a tree planting ceremony for the aptly named "Survival Tree." Presiding at the ceremony on the front lawn of the school was Principal A. F. Bell, Survival Week director Marie Peluso and Student Council president Gord It was this frightening realization that prompted a group of students and staff to form the Coordinating Committee for Survival Week - a week-long anti- pollution campaign the objective of which was to point out the problems and in some small way attempt to put things right in an area of immediate concern, the school itself. By Bill Waicus The world today is on the verge of taking its last breath. Students embark on hottie battle' PAGE , A mere broken leg cannot stop the show and Tom Gibson takes his place among distaff students of Nelson A. Boylen secondary school during a 'Music Night' performance last week. Gals are Cathy Adams, Teresa Falove, Eva Divmcenzo and Marian Veenstra. The weather played its part providing temperatures in the mid seventies, moderate winds and sunny skies. Approximately 2,000 people attended the day long activities. The auction of furniture and household goods and sale of books and baked goods continued for most of the day. Pony rides and games of skill occupied the very young. However, the best "money raiser" of the day was the infamous "Dunk Tank" - where you could (by tossing a ball through a small hole and activating a collapsable chair) send your worst enemy or best friend to a watery fate in eight feet of chilled "aqua Pura." All during Survival Week the maintenance staff had been instructed NOT to pick up after the students. So by Friday the entire school building and property was in need of a massive clean-up. While one-third of the school worked inside, the other two. thirds cleaned up the school grounds and the grounds of the neighbouring York-F inch Hospital. An hour after it began 160 bags of garbage (a pile 40 feet long, 6 feet high and 8 feet wide) was collected and displayed in the sehool's main foyer. With this, the Survival Week campaign slogan rang unmistakably clear: Pollution - We can LIVE without it. +++ Last Saturday's Jamboree at the Jane Finch Mall was, in the words of its organizers, "an unqualified success." The Westview Centennial Band Supporters Club president, Martyn Hedges, estimated several weeks ago a $1,000 profit - but when all the pennies were counted the final figure touched closer to $1,600. McKay. It was made known later that it took a half hour to dig a hole for the tree - removing (in addition to six cubic feet of earth) one glass bottle, two broken bricks and one crushed tin can. At Westview, as in the other branches, the banking facilities offered are limited - but useful. Basically, the bank takes deposits, handles withdrawals, accepts payment for utility bills and looks after the required bookkeeping. Form a life-saving habit. Have a health check-up whenever you notice an unusual symptom, says the Canadian Cancer Society. And help support the Society's life-saving ac- tivities with a contribution to its annual campaign. The Westview school branch was the first of six such "school" branches in Canada, set up with the help of the Imperial Bank of Commerce. +++ We are all holding our collective "breaths". Westview's second yearbook in as many years should arrive this Saturday by plane from Winnipeg. The editors have promised a “STAR STUDDED" EDITION - one we will never forget. The Commerce began this unique school bank program in September, 1968, and has established close to 300 accounts. Commercial Accounting Head Patrick Beattie, is enthusiastic about having a branch in the school. "We're happy to have it here, not just because it is a real convenience for our students but because it provides practical experience to go with classroom work for the "STUDENT BANKERS." The bank will re-open'again in September. The Concert Band will hold its farewell (Bon Voyage!) concert on June 23 in the school's auditorium. The three-week playing tour of Britain now draws closer. +++ As of this Friday the Westview Bank will have served both students and staff for two years. T With her husband defeated in his try for Board of Control last year, Mrs. McGivern is not sitting back and letting the world go by, She has begun a career in real estate and said she enjoys it very much. Mr. McGivern, ward six coun~ cillor for two terms has been appointed to the Court of Revision. Gordon Hurlburt made no bones about considering a woman's place is in the home and his sweet wife is now learning to play the piano and is dutifully staying home. Wonder if he knows that a woman was consid- ered for the seat he now occupies on the TTC com- mission. Ward one Alderman Fred Schindeler differed with Mr, Service on the proposed location of a domed stadium. In a pre-dinner conversation, Mr. Service steadfastly refused to consider any other location that Downsview air» port ground. Mr. Schindeler suggested a site closer' to York University as more suitable. With a view, perhaps, of cutting classes to attend a rousing football game? Mr. Schindeler is a professor of behavourial studies on the faculty of York University. It takes $15 a day to feed and care for 1,000 mice in research laboratories throughout Canada. Mice are used in experiments which are helping to solve the problem of cancer. Support the research attack on cancer by sending a cheque to your local unit of the Canadian Cancer Society. Continued from Page 1 that he "get's a blast out of it." "I had never been here before 1942, and I can remember the day I came up the Weston Road on the old trolley. When I reached the top of the hill by Rogers Road, I looked over the "I think of the old Rose.. land bus that once turned at the back of Roseland's School, went along the 'main drag' we call Lambton Ave., ended up at the Junction, and only cost a nickel for the ride," she said. Asked to recall the Mount Dennis she knows best, a smile comes to her face as if she's lost in a memory. Coming to Mount Dennis around 1942, Mrs. Collings has only lived here for about 25 years, and considering some folks have been here for over 60 years, she's a newcomer! Mount Dennis is a com- munity. A community is people. And it is people like Mrs. Maida Collings of Marshall Blvd. that keep Mount Dennis very much alive. Mrs. Collings is a robust, quick-smiling, con- cerned woman. Active in the Roseland's Home and School for many years, she is also a member of the United Church Womens, active in the Weston Cancer Society, involved with the Humber Memorial Hospital, has a part in the Social Planning Council and has served with the Cistic Fibrosis Founda- tion. Quite a record! FAREWELL TO COUNCIL Speaking of Mount Dennis THE WESTON TIMES Greig Ste wa rt 763-5 983 Mount Dennis was a community that stuck together in those days. It had been a short 20 years since this little community had voted down amalgamation with the city. "It was really something to see the community join together when times were tough," Mrs. Collings con- tinued “I remember one night about 18 years ago when Conn Smythe wanted to turn Roseland's School "Of course, landmarks were few then but between the fields were the old Legion, the Good Shepherd Church, Pearen Church, Kodak and, oh yes, the old Post Office building between Hollis and Locust Avenues. The people living in this 'village' smiled and spoke freely and had a friendliness about them." valley and saw a few roof- tops and steeples rising above the trees. It was like a little secluded village." GULF CANADA HOME COMFORT LTD. ft 362-2881 A AUTOMATIC DELIVERY OF THE FINEST HEATING OIL Your Area Sales Representative BOB GRANT This is being a community. People with a friendly at- titude, rallying together, sticking together and helping together. According to some, this was, not is, Mount Dennis. I wonder if they're right. Do you? Playground into a gravel pit. Mount Dennis people were pretty mad; they called a meeting of Ratepayers to try and stop him. And they did! " "Then there was Hurri- cane Hazel. Mount Dennis and Weston were two of the hardest hit areas in Toronto. It rained all day and night and the power went off once or twice. Rescue crews were formed for people that lived down in the flats. People really cared then. I remember a newsman broadcasting live to us from the roof of a farmhouse while floodwaters rose around him. It was times like this that made Mount Dennis a very meaningful and ex- citing place to live." . Gulf parts reirtacement plan. . 24 hr. emergency service-- oFree annual furnace conditioning. THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1970 7 days a week.